Foreign News: The Luftwaffe Intercepts

The British Overseas
Airways station at London knew the weather had roughened over the Bay
of Biscay. But it was nothing unusual for the regular flight of the big
Douglas liner from Lisbon. Then, suddenly, came the voice of the Dutch
pilot over the radio: "I am being followed by strange aircraft. Putting
on best speed. . . . We are being attacked. Cannon shells and tracers
are going through the fuselage. Wave-hopping and doing my best." Then
silence.

Next day a Berlin communique claimed an enemy transport downed over the
Atlantic....